ginger griffin, 2/4

Yesterday in class we talked about the value of art and how the more and more it is reproduced the more and more the value of it goes down. With this we talked about the Mona Lisa and how it has been reproduced and some people thought that might be why it is so popular and others thought that might make its value decrease. The Mona Lisa is a very popular painting, one known quite well across the globe, I personally think that because it is so reproduced, it makes it more valuable.

Then we began to talk about "the original" and what it means to be an original. There was the "original" hamburger add we saw with probably 15 "original's". There can only be one original and from that there can be multiple copies of it from that year. It is kind of confusing but with Dr. Casey's watch he stated that somebody asked him if his watch was an original, meaning was it from the year they began to make it. Of course it wouldn't be the very first watch ever made, but it could be one of the first watched sold from that brand, therefore making it an original. The word original is somewhat loaded because you must be specific when speaking about it.

Finally, the last thing I found interesting in class was the grape example. Of course grape kool-aid and a grape do not taste a like but it is the color that tells us what flavor it is and it is also what we have been told since we were growing up. I wonder what else parents could have their children believe by simply putting it in their heads at a young age?